ok so this wrecked my gun some how, lol at first i thought maybe i had messed something up internally but i opened the thing up, as well as an unmodded one and they are both identical, i have no idea whats going on, but it sound like its skipping when i pull everything back, and i pull the trigger, it shoots forward but the gun doesn't fire the bullet i don know whats going on

I had that same problem. If you dismantle the gun again, near the top you should find a long and skinny little spring that has a loop at one end. Put the half of the cocking handle with the pin on it through the long hole and hook the loop onto the pin. When you reassemble it, it should work.

there is a catch that goes around the spring and clicks in to place with the pump so that when you pull the trigger it closes the pump, there is a small bit of plastic on the catch that sometimes gets ground smooth. i'm not sure how to fix it but that might be your problem. hope that helped

open up the gun like in the guide, then open up the cylinder thinggy, you have to pull out the metal rod which can be kind of hard. Then cut the sticks with a wire cutter or clippers or scissors or w/e and remove the plastic things on the tiny springs

I'm sorry to be so anal about this, but I was quite confused until I realized you what you were calling a barrel, is what I've always called the magazine. I'm pretty sure the barrel is the long tube where the compression builds up behind the bullet.

Ok, forget the word "Magazine." Obviously I'm not a gun expert. My point is that this instructible says it's modifying the "Barrel." I drew a picture of a classic cowboy style six-shooter, and asked 10 people to point to the barrel of the gun. All 10 pointed to the long tube at the front that the bullet comes out of. Only one of them pointed to the cylinder, but then he said, "Normally I would have pointed to this (points to the barrel just like everybody else) but I thought it was a trick question." Check out this diagram, or any other on the internet: http://www.popguns.com/centerfire/images/classes/revparts.jpg I am asking whether, for clarity's sake, the author of this instructible should have used the word "Cylinder" everywhere he or she wrote "Barrel."

Well, if you think just a little harder, you'll notice that the gun in this instructable is blue, so the ridge would be blue. So if you have a yellow Maverick the ridge will be yellow. You'd also notice that all Mavericks are the same so it'll be in the same spot.

Does this ruin the turning of the barrel/cylinder? For instance, it's calibration? I really want to do this mod since it's damn annoying to loaf it up with only one and a half slots exposed. But I don't want to ruin the gun. Anyone know? ^__^

i have found that a better way to remove the ridges is to heat up a exacto knifes blade (if you have one of course) lucky for me i have too many of the things laying around so i attached it to the handle and heated it up... slid through like butter i then took sandpaper and sanded it smooth by hand

Awesome instructions, thank you. Since I used a small hacksaw to cut the ridges off, I had this mod complete in less than 15 minutes, minus a small piece of finger. It feels like the pins holding the barrel in might be a little weak now, so I wouldn't want to take this into nerfwars without replacing those pins with something stronger, but for my steampunk revolvers this is awesome. Thanks so much!!

Very neat mod, I give it a 4 out of 5, because you missed this step: When reassembling the slider, you need to make sure that the metal bar goes through the loop of the spring, because that is what makes the slider return to place after cocking the gun.

Yeah this mod has been posted before, in fact it is in the related http://www.instructables.com/id/nerf-mavrick-mod/Mavericks are one of the most modded nerf guns and the standard mods range from removing the air restricters, changing springs, making a tighter connection between the pump and barrel, and of course cutting the little tabs off the barrels. Also you should know that with this and many other mods the structural integrity of the gun is lowered and parts can snap off, but then again it is a cheap gun so have fun with it.